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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Present from behind the Iron Curtain was Czechoslovakia's Joseph Hromadka, wartime lecturer at Princeton and Dean of Prague's state-controlled Theological Faculty, who collaborates with the Communists. Dr. Hromadka listened as Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia said pointedly: "When in the considered and prayerful judgment of a church [its] freedom . . . is essentially abridged by state or society, it is the duty of the church to say no to the state and no to the society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Calvin Lineage | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...Condemnation of "those who advocate book burnings, purges, or other devices which are, in effect, an expression of lack of confidence in the integrity, loyalty, and good judgment of the American people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Voice | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...Ideas. "Philanthropy is an American habit," he wrote, "and the modern foundation is an American invention." Its aims: "To make human beings healthier, happier, wiser, more conscious of the rich possibilities of human existence and more capable of realizing them . . ." It is true that a foundation must exercise careful judgment in selecting the studies and scholars it wishes to support. But having done so, it must treat the doctrine of the free enterprise of ideas as inviolate. In its 43 years, Dollard continued, the Carnegie Corporation (which has spent $253 million to improve public libraries, educational standards, etc.) has never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Two-Edged Weapon | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...Although medical schools and teaching hospitals are taxexempt, surely no one would think it his right to tell the cancer specialist how he should go about curing cancer ... In short, the doctrine that tax exemption justifies a political judgment as to the soundness of ideas can be a very dangerous two-edged weapon. Indeed it can be the most devastating weapon ever invented for invading the private life of this nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Two-Edged Weapon | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...Snap Judgment. In Sheffield, England, Mrs. Margaret Williamson won a marriage annulment after testifying that her husband Alexander argued with her mother two hours after the ceremony in 1949, walked out, never came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 19, 1954 | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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